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PATENT FFICEC DENNISON HUMPHREY, OF GROYDON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK A. SIBLEY, OF NEWPORT, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,915, dated April 17, 1883.

I application filed November G, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DENNISON IIUMPHREY, of Uroydon, in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoes,

of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, convenient, and dura'ble hoe which shall be adapted to enter the soil with IO less power applied thereto than those heretofore constructed having whole blades, and yet be capable of removing the soil in the act of hoeing as expeditiously as those heretofore constructed and in general use.

i5 Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a hoe constructed according to my invention.

Fig. 2 represents an end or side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a cross-section of one ot' the prongs.

A represents the bed portion or hack of the hoe, and is provided with a series of prongs, B, formed oval or rounded upon their front faces and beveled off at their lower cutting ends, E, leaving their rear faces flat, and all throughout upon the same plane as the rear ot' said back A. These prongs B taper slightly from their lower ends, E, upward to near their intersection with the said back portion A, and are of corresponding width with the intervening spaces, each being about onehalf an inch in width, which construction permits two hoe-hlanks to be cut from a sheet ot' steel without waste, as the prongs of one form the spaces of the other when the two are cut apart. Then their oval form being produced by a drop or press, which reduces their thickness toward their lower ends and increases their width in proportion, leaves the finished hoe with prongs, substantially as shown, 40 theirends beingheveled from front to rear, and

square or all on a straight line, by which construction it will be seen that such squareended prongs are each adapted to remove the soil as such prongs are drawn or forced into the same, and that the intervening Spaces hetween the prongs are so narrow that the usual moisture of the soil will hold the same together sufficiently to permit the hoe to carry or remove all or nearly all the soil that may he drawn or forced upon the same from one edge 5e to the other, or upon the extreme width of the hoe from the two outer prongs, as but little will fall through the spaces, so as to serve the purposes of a full-blade hoe, and that the formation of the spaces, being narrowest at the edge or ends of the prongs, permits any stones or other hard substances to pass between the ends of the prongs and not clog or stick between the same as they are forced over the said ohstructions, allowing such to slip hetween the prongs and pass through to the rear. i

I am well aware that pronged hoes are old and well known, and that weeding-hoes of various forms have heretofore been constructed. Therefore I do not broadly claim such invention, but limit my invention to the precise eonstruction herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 7o The hoe consisting of the hack portion A,

having a series of prongs, B, formed tapering from their lower ends, E, upward, and with oval front faces and rectangular ends heveled from front to rear, substantially as shown and 7 described, as and for the purposes set forth.

DENNISON HUMPHREY. Witnesses:

GEORGE R. BROWN, RANsoM SEVERNS. 

